{"id":284,"date":"2007-06-13T11:29:26","date_gmt":"2007-06-13T17:29:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=284"},"modified":"2007-06-13T11:29:26","modified_gmt":"2007-06-13T17:29:26","slug":"droughts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=284","title":{"rendered":"Droughts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Interesting NYT article on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/06\/10\/sports\/football\/10score.html\">sports droughts<\/a>.  Apparently, Cleveland has now gone 123 team-season (i.e., 123 combined NFL, NBA and MLB seasons) without a championship.  Could it be worse?<\/p>\n<p>Yes.  You could have been a kid in Atlanta in the 80&#8217;s.  When the Braves won the World Series in 1995, we&#8217;d had 29 dry years with the Braves, 28 with the Falcons, 27 with the Hawks and nine years with the Flames.  That&#8217;s 93 years of frustration (and 43 since).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interesting NYT article on sports droughts. Apparently, Cleveland has now gone 123 team-season (i.e., 123 combined NFL, NBA and MLB seasons) without a championship. Could it be worse? Yes. You could have been a kid in Atlanta in the 80&#8217;s. When the Braves won the World Series in 1995, we&#8217;d had 29 dry years with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=284\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Droughts<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s2BzKF-droughts","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}